Wood pellets are originally produced
from wood waste (such as sawdust and shavings), rather than whole logs, and thus can be viewed as an integrated part of forest product manufacturing.
Each plant produced 5,000 to 7,000 gallons of ethanol per day
from wood waste, and both were in production for several years (Sherrard 1945).
Corvette Racing will use this renewable high - octane fuel, which is made primarily
from wood waste, in the upcoming ALMS Acura Sports Car Challenge of St. Petersburg on April 5.
Gevo, Inc., a NARA partner, successfully adapted its patented technologies to convert cellulosic sugars derived
from wood waste into renewable isobutanol, which was then converted into Gevo's Alcohol - to - Jet (ATJ) fuel.
Not exact matches
The company, which is pre-revenue but has several million dollars in investment, is developing a form of clean energy made
from the
waste wood that is plentiful in Oregon, where HM3 is based.
Read sustainable packaging news including PHB packaging advances, ecodesign principles, mulch
from recycled
wood waste, refillable glass wine bottles and more.
For example, Colpac launched its Cookpack Hot Boxes and Compostable Ovenable Trays; Greenearth Food Packaging introduced its new range of biodegradable wooden food trays; James Cropper 3D Products debuted COLOURFORM ™, its plastic - free packaging, made
from 100 percent renewable natural
wood fibres; and OAL unveiled APRIL EYE, its intelligent date code verification system that cuts food
waste in the supply chain.
Made
from wood pulp fluff sourced
from family - owned, sustainably managed forests and with significantly less material than traditional plastic diapers, 365 Everyday Value ™ Baby Diapers are responsibly produced and reduce the amount of
waste that ends up in our landfills.
McDonough Hardwoods, LLC, will utilize state - of - the - art technology to extract the maximum amount of high quality hard
wood lumber
from each log, which will not only enhance the profitability of the business, but also reduce the overall amount of
waste material generated through its operations.
The advisor had a client who was trying to commercialize the production of western red cedar
wood oil
from cedar
wood waste.
Or such fuels can be made
from waste: corn stalks, leftover
wood from timber production or even city garbage.
Each day the facility would convert 1,000 tons of
wood chips and
waste from Georgia's vast pulp and paper industry into 274,000 gallons of ethanol.
The borough eventually intends to use the Viper to make barbecue charcoal
from waste wood.
The team achieved better hydrogen yields using methanol and ethanol as starting materials but because glucose can be derived
from plant
waste such as
wood pulp, straw and leftovers
from corn production, the scientists will continue to work on their approach.
A UD research team has invented a more efficient process for extracting the sugars
from wood chips, corn cobs and other organic
waste from forests and farms.
They decompose our dead and all the
waste that animals and plants produce,
from dung to discarded skin, feathers to hair, dead leaves to rotten
wood.
From waste materials such as
wood chips and corn cobs, UD researchers are extracting sugars that can replace petroleum in the manufacture of thousands of consumer products.
Biochar is ground charcoal produced
from waste wood, manure or leaves.
Even if fuels
from agricultural
waste,
wood, grasses and household trash are the greenest transportation option available, manufacturers have yet to produce them with any commercial success.
Study author Catherine Bowyer says the next generation of biofuels, made
from wastes or
wood rather than crops, would have less impact on land use than biofuels made
from crops, but «the policy is also not effectively stimulating advancements in biofuel technologies».
Until then Range Fuels will source its
wood chips
from whole trees — not a
waste product at all, but a commodity used to make paper pulp.
And it can pluck out concrete, metal and
wood from a stream of
waste as it moves along a conveyor belt.
The project is testing three approaches:
wood - burning stoves that are more efficient and thus leave less black - carbon residue; stoves that burn natural gas produced
from waste; and solar cookers.
Speller believes it will be suitable for integrated power stations which at different times of year could burn Miscanthus,
wood chips
from coppicing, straw or even domestic
waste.
The amount of biomass available
from corn and food crops is very small; for biofuels to have a large impact, we must harness energy
from nonedible plants, also known as cellulosic biomass —
wood and
wood waste, agricultural
waste, and energy crops.
Most of it stems
from construction or demolition sites, building renovations and conversions and
from packaging and crushed
waste whose pollutant content falls within the permitted guidelines for recycling or
wood combustion (OMW, 2005).
«Cost competitive, energy responsible cellulosic ethanol made
from switchgrass or
from forestry
waste like sawdust and
wood chips requires a more complex refining process but it's worth the investment,» Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said at the Range Fuels facility groundbreaking in November.
No, the EU now gets more than 60 per cent of its renewable energy
from biomass: some
from crops grown to make liquid biofuels, but mostly
from waste wood and felled trees.
Sunitha Sadula, a postdoctoral researcher at UD's Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center, works in the lab to extract sugars
from wood chips, corn cobs and other forest and farm
waste.
Instead of processing commodities that might otherwise be used for food, next generation fuels can be produced
from dedicated energy crops like switchgrass, to the non-edible parts of corn plants, to unmarketable
wood from the lumber industry — taking resources that would otherwise go to
waste and using them to fuel our energy independence.
There are also potential industrial and environmental uses: Cellulose and woody stems
from plants — in the form of paper,
wood, and related materials — account for more than half of the biomass in
waste dumps worldwide.
«You can use the
waste product
from the distilling process or any number of other sources of biomass, such as switchgrass or
wood pulp.
The cellulosic ethanol made
from waste wood is identical to conventional grain - based ethanol.
The cellulosic ethanol used by Corvette Racing is made
from waste wood — dead trees, undergrowth, broken branches, and bark — collected in South Dakota's Black Hills National Forest to reduce the risk of wildfire.
We chosed this kind of construction because
wood suits the local weather conditions and keeps the air cool even on the warmest days, avoiding the big
waste of energy
from air conditioned rooms and using local materials at the same time.
Expecially, the biofuel are made
from waste or
waste wood and so on.
She raised some of her food, carried the water she used for bathing and cooking
from a nearby well, collected rainwater
from her roof for washing, composted her
waste and split
wood for her
wood stove.
As
wood became scarce, the development of plastics created
from the cracked hydrocarbon
wastes generated in the vaporization of oil have been harnessed to replace
wood.
Most are made
from compressed sawdust and other
wood waste, though some stoves can also take
wood, recycled paper
waste, and biomass pellets.»
Part two shows that, contrary to some industry claims, the brunt of the
wood in pellets is
from hardwood trees, not scrap and
waste.
Cross-laminated timber (CLT) for North American markets has historically not been feasible due to relative high cost of fabrication, however, developments in CNC technology and sourcing
waste and beetle kill standing dead pine
from the intermountain region presents a viable option for creating solid
wood technology.
A truly sustainable forest products operation, possibly, since they would deplete no
wood if there biomass was kept constant, their energy - mostly generated
from their own
wood waste - would also be sustainable, and they would have a negative input of carbon dioxide.
Amy Hunting, a Norwegian designer working in London, creates her Patchwork series of furniture and lamp shades
from waste wood and offcuts collected
from factories in Denmark.
The bagels are baked in the morning using the residual heat in the oven
from the previous evening's pizza - making; this means that they're essentially baked with
waste heat, no new
wood required.
Biomass
from crop
waste, yard
waste, pallets and other
wood materials is produced in large quantities in Ohio, but most of that ends up in landfills instead of providing a potential 14 million kilowatt hours every year.
The Standard Alcohol Company built a cellulosic ethanol plant in Georgetown, South Carolina to process
waste wood from a lumber mill (PDA 1910).
KiOR's biorefinery in Columbus, Mississippi started commercial production in March using
wood chips to produce cellulosic fuels, and Ineos just announced on July 31 that their Indian River BioEnergy plant in Florida has begun operations to make biofuels
from plant
waste.
Examples include growing winter cover crops for energy, timber processing
wastes, urban
waste wood, landfill methane,
wood from agroforestry systems that boost productivity, and crop residues that are not otherwise used.
Advanced biofuels can be derived
from lignocellulosic feedstocks, such as agricultural
waste (e.g., corn stover, wheat straw, rice hulls), agricultural processing byproducts (e.g., corn fiber or sugar cane bagasse), forestry and
wood processing
waste, the paper portion of municipal solid
waste, or dedicated energy crops such as switchgrass.
The
waste wood, tree branches and other scraps are gathered together
from factories and
from farms to a biomass power plant.